Muse Challenge #21 + Paper Smooches Sparks Designer Draft

We are officially on summer break, so why don't I have any time to create? This afternoon I managed to squeeze a quick hour in the office and ended up with red inky fingers that look like I was involved in a kitchen accident. 

The first card is inspired by Muse Therese Calvird.

I love the dimension & colors in her flowers, so used that as my starting point. Every now and then I poke around my supplies to refresh my memory and see what is hiding. These Graphic 45 metal flowers were overdue to be used.

These flowers are a dream to shape with the help of my small pliers. I inked them with my alcohol inks, but it might have been less messy to use Copics.

The flowers are held together with brads and sit on a bed of MFT Royal leaves. Echoing Therese's card, a small metal butterfly is lifting off one of the flowers.

For the Paper Smooches Sparks Designer Drafts challenge card I used a couple of the free digital stamps.

The trio of flowers is sized and placed on either side of the "thanks" and a third trio was fussy cut and adhered to the panel.

The panel was trimmed so that a few of the flowers hand over the edge.

One advantage of not having much time is I'm forced to make decisions on color palette & details like which embossing folder to use quickly. More time usually doesn't mean more gets produced!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie